[Mapserver-users] Error installing MapServer

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

Try restarting XP (or at the very least logout and log back in). 
Restarting XP will update your environment variables and you shouldn't
see those pesky error messages again.

-Perry

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 08:41, Mario Servin wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I am having errors with the installation of MapServer 4.0. I
> followed the steps:
> 1-Downloaded the binary MapServer 4.0 for Windows. My platform is
> Windows XP with IIS 5.0. 
>  
> 2-Extract the files to C:\Documents and
> Settings\mario\MyInstall\MapServer
>  
> 3-Copy \Proj to C:\Proj
>  
> 4-Add C:\Documents and Settings\mario\MyInstall\MapServer\lib to the
> path variable of my Windows.
>  
> 5-Create the virtual directory Scripts of my Default Web Site because
> it was not created. I pointed it to the folder IIS C:\Inetpub\Scripts.
>  
> 6-Copy mapserv.exe to C:\Inetpub\Scripts.
>  
> 7-Opened a command prompt window in C:\Inetpub\Scripts and typed:
> mapserv.exe. I got the following error: "This application failed to
> start because LIBPQ.dll was not found. Re-installing the application
> may fix this problem."
>  
> 8-tried to execute from the browser and get the following error: "CGI
> Error
> The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete
> set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:"  And no header is
> shown at all.
>  
>     Can anybody help me on how to proceed to get a correct
> installation?.
>     Regards,
>                 Mario
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Pericles S. Nacionales <nacional at cbs.umn.edu>
University of Minnesota